[Ernest MOUCHEZ]. 165 letters, most of them... - Lot 331 - Ader

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[Ernest MOUCHEZ]. 165 letters, most of them... - Lot 331 - Ader
[Ernest MOUCHEZ]. 165 letters, most of them L.A.S., addressed to him.1889 etc., 1889; about 420 p. in-8 (for the most part), qqs headers. Important set of letters addressed to Mouchez, on a personal basis, by a hundred or so correspondents, during the year 1889 (with the exception of one letter from 1888 and another from 1890). They come from the most diverse places: Paris, Versailles, Sèvres, Marseille, Cassis, Nice, Madrid, Rome, Brussels, Cairo, Tananarive, La Plata, Poulkovo (Russia), etc. Among the subjects treated, we note in the first place, of course, astronomy: publication of a praise of the Astronomical Photography of Mouchez (1887); determination of the time by the observatory of Lyon; construction of the tower of the Central Meteorological Institute of Madrid; observation of a star at the observatory of Liege; publication of an article on lunar distances; contribution of the province of Buenos Aires to the project of Map of the Sky; appointments of Henri Perrotin and Albert Obrecht to the observatories of Nice and Santiago of Chile; reproaches addressed by Mouchez to an astronomer; astronomical observations carried out in Madagascar; sending of a celestial planisphere and a Korean compass to the Observatory; controversy with Henri Poincaré about the satellites of Mars; inauguration of the statue of Le Verrier; installation of an astronomical telescope at the Eiffel Tower; steps of Camille Flammarion to make come a young astronomer to Juvisy; observations carried out by Auguste Fraissinet at the Observatory; astrophotographic tests carried out at the observatory of Stockholm by Hugo Gylden; Maurice Loewy's method to carry out new observations; Mouchez's visit to the observatory of Nice, where an angled equatorial is to be built; observation of Brooks's comet by James Tennant; Julien Thoulet's conferences at the observatory of Montsouris; observation of Faye's comet at the observatory of Algiers, etc. Other questions are evoked: reorganization of the nautical instructions concerning La Plata; construction of a port of embarkation in Benevente, Brazil; exploration of the Omo basin (Ethiopia) by Jules Borelli; preparation of the congress of Chronometry; installation of a gyroscope on a submarine; request for the loan of a theodolite-compass to carry out magnetic observations; various invitations and recommendations... Astronomers : Antoine d'Abbadie; Charles André; Leo de Ball; François Beuf; Adolphe de Boé; Alphonse Boinot; Hyacinthe Bruguière; Octave Callandreau; Élie Colin; Edmond Dubois (5); Charles Dufour (2); Hervé Faye (2); Camille Flammarion (3); François Folie (2); Auguste Fraissinet (9); Hugo Gylden; Gustave Leveau; Maurice Loewy; Adam Ostoia-Ostaszewski; Henri Perrotin (3); Otto Wilhelm von Struve (4); James Francis Tennant; Charles Trépied (3); Charles Wolf. Meteorologists: Augusto Arcimis; Léon Teisserenc de Bort (2). Geographers : Henri Duveyrier (4) ; Charles Maunoir. Physicist : Hippolyte Fizeau. Explorers : Jules Borelli ; Henri Coudreau. Doctors and naturalists : Benjamin Milliot; Armand de Quatrefages; Félix de Ranse; Julien Thoulet (3). Mariners : Armand Banaré (2); Octave de Bernardières; Lucien Berryer (2); Gustave Besnard; Édouard Caspari; Georges Cloué; Georges Fleuriais (2); Charles Eugène Galiber; Ernest de Jonquières ; Edmond Jurien de La Gravière; Henri de Kerillis; Jules Krantz Auguste Massenet (4); François Edmond Pâris; Charles Regnault de Prémesnil; Albert Riondel (9); Antoine Schwerer (2); Emile Zédé. Various personalities: Raphaël Bischoffsheim (banker); Georges Borelli (brother of Jules); Champigneulle (glass painter); Victor Collin de Plancy (2); Émile Decauville; Edmond Dupain (painter); Gustave Eiffel (2); Léon Lalanne; Charles Lefebvre de Bécourt (4); Louis Liard (2); Lucien Magne (3); Bartolomé Mitre; Ernest Maindron; René Panhard (2); Édouard Viviani (4), etc.
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